The apps name is derived from the “vine” part – someone else can see your photo and upload their own similar or related photo, and then someone else does it and so on. So it creates a set of photos that are all similarly focused. While photo applications (see Instagram, With, Path, etc.) are all the rage right now, I am not surprised Google launched their own and got in on the fun, as it could be the creation of the next social network....

So what is this health tracker all about? Before you come up with general questions like how big it is, how I can use it, or is it mobile or not? Here’s the answer to all your queries – the Google Health Tracker is a wearable. Yes, you heard it right! Just like a smartwatch, it has a wrist band which you can wear around your hand and take wherever you go....

Interestingly enough, the features of GIFs are not exactly the best recipe for success – they only support 256 colors (versus the 16.7 million colors supported by JPEG), they have no audio, and users cannot control them. At the same time, though, these features are probably why they are so popular: they’re a simple way of communicating an idea, a reaction, or a feeling. When used in conversations, most GIFs have an important flaw, because they hardly have any description or context and, sometimes, it can be hard to place them in the conversation’s framework....

Staying Adaptable Pieter Levels, CEO of NomadList was able to grow his startup from a side hustle hobby to a business generating nearly $400k a year in revenue. Along with learning code and other technical skills, he advises always learning new skills to stay adaptable. He writes: Persistence While Levels pushes for adaptability and skill learning, others advise keeping persistent in the face of shifting marketing trends. One software developer for Windows writes:...

According to the team, the close of yet another stress-packed tax season sees solopreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses searching for a more efficient way to get paid and track business expenses. Hiveage is a SaaS secure cloud platform that provides simple billing tools designed to help small business owners when it comes to billing, invoicing, and reducing overhead. Part of the Hiveage launch out of beta included a flexible, twofold paid subscription plan for its users....

While sunlight levels differ from state to state there’s a huge amount of energy to be tapped into in the U.S. Even Alaska, the least sunny state, gets more sunlight than the UK annually; meanwhile, if Texas were to harness their solar energy they could power the entire world. What’s the cost? As it stands, getting solar panels set up isn’t cheap. Costs are falling in the US as the technology advances, but they’re still way above the European average....

From social media to telephone networks, companies are acting on bad faith messengers who are looking to confuse and cash in on coronavirus disinformation. We take a look at what has been happening, and how it is being stopped. Facebook Takes on World Leaders As you might expect, Facebook is something of a fertile ground for misleading information, gossip and home remedies, easily created and equally easily passed around to friends and family....

Many companies focus so narrowly on the products they’re selling that they forget to address the purchasing experience. Great e-commerce encourages discovery while also “getting out of the way” of the user. With more consumers utilizing their mobile phones as shopping devices, creating an engaging and frictionless shopping experience on mobile should be a top priority for e-commerce startups. Below is a look at some recent trends that enable e-commerce sites and apps to create usable and enjoyable experiences....

This explosion of growth has had a huge impact on the influx of data we have seen over the last decade and what we expect to see in the next one. As much as a 4,300 percent increase in annual global data generation is expected by 2020, leading to a staggering figure of 35 zettabytes (ZB). If companies aren’t prepared they could end up spending the next six months to a year cultivating the necessary infrastructure and developing a strategy needed to match competitor efforts in drawing insight from their data....

Local News Is Vital But Can’t Figure Out Revenue Basically, local news serves a specific purpose to a specific community. Once the internet came on the scene, the idea of a physical community getting a physical newspaper became a lot less relevant to the business interests of news sources: News could now become a scalable enterprise. But you can’t scale the “local” part. Any local papers who tried to chase clicks for an ad-based revenue model lost the audience who wanted local news, and any local papers that stayed true to their audience were consigning themselves to a tiny readership that no subscription model could turn into viable revenue....

The question remains: how can you start a SaaS business and thrive in the competitive Cloud market? Why SaaS? The term Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) refers to the distribution of Cloud-based applications by a third-party company. Both businesses and individual consumers like SaaS for several reasons. The approach enables companies to reduce software maintenance costs;Instead of investing in custom enterprise application development, a company can choose a convenient SaaS pricing model (usually “pay-as-you-go”, monthly fees) and only pay for the storage and features they use;A user can always terminate his SaaS license or upgrade to the next level, thus expanding software feature set and storage space;Software updates and security patches are solely handled by a SaaS provider;A company’s employees and customers can access Cloud-based apps from any device connected to the Internet....

In the past week, your Facebook feed has likely been inundated with people listing a number of bands and one being a lie. The week before everyone was talking about the Mother of All Bombs or the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast. And the week before that the world was tearing into Sean Spicer for claiming Hitler never used chemical weapons. In the same period of time, Bill O’Reilly was kicked off the air, Silicon Valley darling Juicero was found to be an expensive paperweight, and we can’t forget the countless photos of Starbucks’ Unicorn Frappuccino....

The company, iFundWomen, has created a crowdfunding platform exclusively for women-led businesses to get the advice, guidance, and most importantly the funding they need to succeed in the startup world. The goal is to close the funding gap in venture capital that women experience when starting a business. Karen Cahn has some street cred of her own when it comes to her career. She is currently the founder and CEO of VProud, a video-based conversation platform built for women, by women, and VCommunity, a video blogging platform that enables brands to host safe, video-based communities, on their own sites....

Here are a couple of tips that helped me along the way: 1. Do more than expected Don’t go the extra mile just to show off to your employer. Do it because you want to learn as much as possible on how a business is operated. As an entrepreneur, you are always expected to do more than what is expected. Being able to build such a work ethic as an intern prepares you for the bumpy road to entrepreneurship....

Today, half the population of the world logs into some form of social media. Whether they’re snapping, tweeting, posting, or filtering, the number of social media users has seen a meteoric rise, and there are few signs of that slowing down. Even with Facebook’s user growth reaching its inevitable plateau, there are dozens of other platforms primed and prepped to fill the gap. Considering that the average person is spending nearly two hours per day on social media, the risk of addiction seems high....

iOS 10 has been launched onto the market for smartphones and tablets, but is it good enough to warrant your time and memory? Not a Smooth Launch The release of iOS 10 came as part of the unveiling of the new iPhone 7, and has been made available for all other recent Apple products. As with all new releases of the iOS, there are some welcome changes and impressive additions, as well as a few niggling bugs and alterations that have not been so well received....

How Have Publishing Platforms Come About? Publishing platforms aren’t a completely novel idea – they’ve actually been around for a while; however, the new wave of platforms are an interesting mix of social media and journalism. Even actual social media sites are considering making the investment into this market – Facebook is looking into monetizing its platform to encourage paid sponsored content. But for these publishing platforms to have success, we have to examine the longevity of online journalism....

Some were lucky enough to dupe their parents into buying less than practical versions of these high-tech gadgets in toy stores and novelty shops, with the quality being less than a mere disappointment. And though hidden spy cameras have been a reality as far back as the mid-1800s, they were mostly out of reach of normal citizens until the mid-2000s. Wi-Fi Supported Hidden Cameras More Affordable than Ever Recently, technological advances in camera technology and the IoT has, like most technology these days, spawned a new generation of Wi-Fi enabled hidden cameras and DVRs....

But there’s no secret formula, no recipe for success. And with so much attention focused on viral videos, it can be easy to overlook the impact of a simple, well-engineered video that touts the basics of a company’s product or service in a few short minutes. That’s where Lightswitch hopes to carve out its niche. Founded in Chicago late last year, Lightswitch bills itself as the go-to startup for developing short videos for business profiles, product demonstrations, customer testimonials, recruiting and training segments, and more....

Announced at the tail end of January, Google says the move will make it much easier for users to move between “critical” applications such as Gmail, Chat, and the company’s web conferencing service for businesses, Google Meet. By the end of Q2 2022, Google says the changes will become the standard experience for users, with no option of opting back. Google’s Interface is Changing Google is effectively changing the way Chat, Meet, and Spaces are accessed within Gmail....